Does anyone have eyes that change colour????

[SilverCyclone]

My eyes change depending on what I wear. If its light, they become a light blue. If I wear dark colors, they become green. It scares some people, but most just think I have really cool eyes (girls really like them! :cool: ). I havent figured out what makes them do this, but sometimes they look kind of like a starburst, with blue on the inside and green on the outside. I really enjoy my eyes.
Im weird that way...There may be a scientific reason, and Im sure there is, but until I find it, Im gonna enjoy my blissful ignorance.

[chimazokuruby]

my eyes change with my mood. when i am sad they turn slate. when i am happy theyare bright blue, and when i am tired they're a dark blue, and so on...not sure of all the colors yet...but thats as many as i know...they also turn green when i think in a relaxed sorta mood

[Spiritbreeze]

Well, you people certainly had an interesting debate going here. Not that I think Heero Darkangel really meant to start one. And, anyways, who cares [I]how[/I] your eyes change color(or only seem to), it's just something fun. I like to believe my eyes and hair change color(of course my hair looks different in different light), but I don't care how. My friends and I seem to think that your colors sort of match your personality. Aren't colors just wonderful?

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:rolleyes: OK ... That whole "debate" ^^^ was not needed. Meaningless. I mean, who can really say someone's eyes [i]don't[/i] change color, if you've never MET the person?? :rolleyes: To state that science says no to it, is just closed minded in my book. You should all keep your facts and figures to yourselves if you're going to beat them down on people. You have no way of knowing for sure, so why don't you leave it at that? :rolleyes: But we're all having fun right? :laugh: Right. :flaming:

lol...

My eyes used to be brown. But as I got older, they changed to a brownish hazel. And now, they're a Hazel Green. It was very weird, because every single person in my family has brown eyes. So when mine changed color as I got older, my mother thought something was wrong, like I was going blind or something. We went to an eye doctor and he just told me it wasn't going to affect my eyesight, (which was a good thing, believe me) and that sometimes eye color does change in time. It's just been getting greener ever since. But I think it's stop changing now. It's pretty green already. :)

[James]

[QUOTE=...]:rolleyes: OK ... That whole "debate" ^^^ was not needed. Meaningless. I mean, who can really say someone's eyes [i]don't[/i] change color, if you've never MET the person?? :rolleyes: To state that science says no to it, is just closed minded in my book. You should all keep your facts and figures to yourselves if you're going to beat them down on people. You have no way of knowing for sure, so why don't you leave it at that? :rolleyes: But we're all having fun right? :laugh: Right. :flaming:

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[color=#707875]If I told you that I am pregnant, you wouldn't believe me. Why? Because I'm a male, and we know that biologically speaking, males are unable to give birth (well, for now anyway, lol).

So saying that science is closeminded is just ridiculous. This thread is really akin to saying that your hair was brown one day and when you woke up, you were a red head. In other words, your genes decided to change overnight.

I'd encourage some of these people to take photos to prove it, but I have to remember that there are programs like Photoshop out there. ~_^[/color]

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[quote name='James][color=#707875']If I told you that I am pregnant, you wouldn't believe me. Why? Because I'm a male, and we know that biologically speaking, males are unable to give birth (well, for now anyway, lol).[/color][/quote]

Oh my goodness... are you serious?? This is not something so black and White James. Science [B]CAN [/B] be wrong. I'm not trying to say that you're wrong, or that Heero is right here. [B]ALL I AM SAYING[/B], is that you can [B]NEVER [/B] say someone is making a story up on a board. It's just not fair. Because you're right, you'll never believe him no matter WHAT proof he gives you!! So why even doubt him publicly in the first place??? It's just plain rude in my opinion. You're making it hard for people to post because you want [I]undeniable [/I] proof that what they say is true. And if that's not fair, I don't know what is.

[James]

[quote name='...]Oh my goodness... are you serious?? This is not something so black and White James. Science [b]CAN [/b]be wrong. I'm not trying to say that you're wrong, or that Heero is right here. [b]ALL I AM SAYING[/b], is that you can [b]NEVER [/b]say someone is making a story up on a board. It's just not fair. Because you're right, you'll never believe him no matter WHAT proof he gives you!! So why even doubt him publicly in the first place??? It's just plain rude in my opinion. You're making it hard for people to post because you want [i]undeniable [/i']proof that what they say is true. And if that's not fair, I don't know what is.[/quote]
[color=#707875]Wait a minute. Calm down for a moment and consider what I am saying.

If you have read my posts in this thread, you will know that I'm making a particular point.

I am saying that your genetics do not just change overnight, or with your mood. That is totally and utterly ridiculous, period. That's like your skin changing from black to white when your mood changes.

[i]However[/i], I am also saying that there are possible explanations for this apparent change in eye colour. Dragon Warrior listed one possibility -- bloodshot eyes, related to various conditions (tiredness, angriness, or whatever else).

I also mentioned that lighting conditions and colour relationships play a role.

As someone who studies graphic design, I have learned one fundamental fact about colours -- a colour is never in isolation. What I mean is, a colour is often defined by the colours that surround it.

If your eyes are blue and you're wearing a yellow jacket, the "blueness" of your eyes will probably seem a [i]lot[/i] more vivid. As the shade of your jacket changes, so too does the appearance of your eyes.

In reality, your eyes are not actually changing their pigment, nor are your genes changing. But your perception of the eye's colour changes based upon the entire scene that you are witnessing.

So, nobody is beating anyone over the head with their views. I'm letting you have your say, and everyone is having their say. I am simply making a factual point, and then attempting to explain why people may feel that their eye colour is changing.

I'm not saying that people don't see colour changes, I'm just saying that there are explanations as to why they might be seeing that. [/color]

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You need to understand, what you said here is completely fine. It was the [i]deliverance[/i] that got me. For a reader like me to read your posts, and then posts that follow, it seemed as if it was something you felt you needed to point out to that person that what he said was wrong, and that he's making his story up.

It's one of those things I guess where you think your saying one thing, and it coming off completely different. The way you explained it in that last post makes sense. But the way it was [i]delievered[/i] in posts before, made a reader like me feel as if you were trying to prove him wrong, and stated that he can't prove [b]no matter what he did[/b] that what he was claiming, was the truth. If you *truly* were not meaning to sound as if you were trying to prove him a liar, (which now I honestly believe you weren't) I would advise in the future you look at your posts more carefully. Because this is the response you get from what [i]you[/i] wrote.

I'm not speaking for all readers out there of course. This is just my take on what happened here. And I wasn't talking directly to you, James. I was talking about others here too who seem to come on topics like these, ONLY TO PROVE A POINT. I think that's rude. And it's something that I hope changes in the future. Because debates like these can really do people a lot of harm psychologically, if talking to the wrong type of person. We don't know who we're talking to on these boards, and to assume that people can take whatever we throw at them is wrong. Because it can really hurt someone. You never know.

Bottom line, I hope people take into consideration other people's feelings. No one likes to feel pushed out of their own thread.

[James]

[color=#707875]I said that people's eye colours do not just change. I also said that there are probably explanations as to why people think they might change.

So that's pretty clear. My prior post was primarily directed at those who are trying to suggest that there's some physical genetic thing going on, when there clearly isn't. And the comment about science was a misinterpretation -- again, nobody is saying that people's eyes don't sometimes look different. What people are saying is that the genes that control eye colour don't change based on your mood or the weather or whatever else.

It's very important to understand that there are multiple points beind made there -- I'm certainly not suggesting that anything is black and white, other than to say that genetics don't change based on mood.

It's also very ironic to tell me that I'm coming off as rude, when you have responded by jumping all over me and yelling (bolded capitalization? o_O). I'm more than happy to have a calm discussion, in fact, I am always encouraging it. You can't suggest that you want everyone to have their views put out there, and then, in the same breath, tell people to keep their facts and figures to themselves. If we're going to go down that road, then why ever have a discusion? lol

So, again, just to be totally clear, I'm not saying that people are lying if they think that their eyes look kinda different now and then. But those who are trying to suggest that their actual eye colour changes based on certain things are either lying, or seeing something that they are misinterpreting as something else. So, hopefully there are no hard feelings. If anything I've said has been misinterpreted or misunderstood, I'm more than happy to clarify.[/color]

[Transtic Nerve]

Yeah, my eyes change color all the time. I believe its called color contacts.... quite an invention. Makes your eyes magically change color!

In all seriousness though...

Hair color can change with the sun. Sun light affcts your hair like it affects your skin. The same reason why you TAN is the same reason why Pigment is your hair is removed with excess sun light. However, it's all temporary, as when your hair grows back, it will grow back in its original color. Now, newborns and children under the age of 5 have common occurances when their hair will actually gradually change to their "nature" color. For instance, I have dark brown hair, as a todler, I had blond hair. That doesn't work with adults though. Unless dye is involved.

Eye color on the other hand. I think many of you don't understand how light works. When light is removed things tend to become darker than they were if lets say, light was there. Hence when it's stromy outside, theres no direct sunlight, your eyes tend to look darker! Ahh amazing isn't it? What a coincedence that the lack of sunlight would make your eyes look darker. Does anyone have any logically thought process here? Or do you just random come up with fantasies to explain what doesn't need explaining.

[Korey]

[QUOTE=Transtic Nerve]Yeah, my eyes change color all the time. I believe its called color contacts.... quite an invention. Makes your eyes magically change color!

In all seriousness though...

Hair color can change with the sun. Sun light affcts your hair like it affects your skin. The same reason why you TAN is the same reason why Pigment is your hair is removed with excess sun light. However, it's all temporary, as when your hair grows back, it will grow back in its original color. Now, newborns and children under the age of 5 have common occurances when their hair will actually gradually change to their "nature" color. For instance, I have dark brown hair, as a todler, I had blond hair. That doesn't work with adults though. Unless dye is involved.[/QUOTE]


one question. Do you think that the sun is changing your color because your hair is like your skin or is it because the light of the sun is affecting the appearance of your hair because it is in a different light? i'll use myself as an example. i live in a desert, where clouds are very scarce and the sun is out most of the time. yet i look at pictures of myself outside and inside, but i cant find a difference in my hair color. i know that it would look different because of the light that the sun is reflecting off of my hair. Think about what you said, does your hair actually tan?

[quote name='Transtic Nerve']Eye color on the other hand. I think many of you don't understand how light works. When light is removed things tend to become darker than they were if lets say, light was there. Hence when it's stromy outside, theres no direct sunlight, your eyes tend to look darker! Ahh amazing isn't it? What a coincedence that the lack of sunlight would make your eyes look darker. Does anyone have any logically thought process here? Or do you just random come up with fantasies to explain what doesn't need explaining.[/quote]

i am perfectally aware of how light works and you make a good point on the whole issue. but your theory is not totally correct. For example, peoples eyes can change color
because of the colors they are wearing on their clothes. For example winter colors tend to show more dark pigments in a persons eyes and the opposite is true for summer colors. Aren't colors weird?

[quote name='Transtic Nerve']Does anyone have any logically thought process here? Or do you just random come up with fantasies to explain what doesn't need explaining.[/quote]
well i wouldnt say that i come with random stuff. everyone has their opinions friend and thier posts are probably based on personal learning experiences, not just something that is made up mumbo jumbo. think about it. would you say something in a argument just to be heard? people tend to back up their arguments with their own personal beliefs. case in point, me.

[Vicky]

[quote name='Sesshomarufan']Think about what you said, does your hair actually tan?[/quote]

[SIZE=1][B]Your hair does change colour from the sun. My hair used to be blonde, but now it's more brownish or something along those lines. I can't remember what it was that does it but I believe it is possible for your hair to become another colour from the sun.

As for your eyes changing colour, I don't think it would happen if someone's mood changed. Eyes would only change colour from sun, contacts, lights and whatever, as others have said before me. I don't know anyone who's eyes change when their mood does, but one friend tried to convince me but it didn't work.

As far as I see things if your eye is one colour it will stay that way unless there is more or less light around, get what I'm saying? I tend to agree with James on this matter, though. Your eye colour wouldn't change over your mood, in my opinion. Since I think that it's hard to believe someone telling me their eyes do that.[/SIZE][/B]

[Transtic Nerve]

[quote name='Sesshomarufan'] Think about what you said, does your hair actually tan?[/quote]
RRRREEEEAAAADDDD MMMMYYYY PPPOOOOSSSSTTTT

I said your hair LOSES pigment, i never said it tans. Your skin changes pigment when interacting with the sunlight/rays hence why your skin gets DARKER! Your hair on the other hand LOSES pigment, which means it GET LIGHTER! Did i not make that clear? Do you not know what pigment is? Do you not know how color works?


[quote]For example, peoples eyes can change color because of the colors they are wearing on their clothes. For example winter colors tend to show more dark pigments in a persons eyes and the opposite is true for summer colors. Aren't colors weird?[/quote]
Yes, aren't they weird. I've never heard of anyone's eye color changing depending on your mood. Ahh here's where the weird color part comes in. Since the majority of people have no idea how color and/or light work, I'll give you a little lesson. If a person, were to wear all dark clothes, their eyes, if they happen to be blue, would appear to be MORE light because of the contrast with the majority of dark colors. It works with art too, go try it... get a black piece of paper and draw a little circle in the middle with blue and then get a white piece of paper and draw another circle same size witht he same blue and show me that your eyes will precieve them to be the exact same shade of blue. If you say yes, you're lying.... Colors are very weird.

[Spiritbreeze]

[COLOR=Plum][FONT=Garamond]Those who stray
from childhood dreams
pass through days
of sorrow
For they can not
remember
the dreams they forgot
And so live life
only to what they see

Those who believe
and know the magic
of their quiet dreams
live their days
to the best
For they know
they do not test
all the Why's
And so live life
beyond their dreams...[/FONT][/COLOR]

If this makes any sense, it's my view of this argument. Take what you might, though leave the rest...

[em si hsoJ]

your cousins hair just looks differnet because of the light...your hair is dead cells theres no way it could change color purely because of the weather...as far as your eyes... sounds pretty cool! heh...mine are light green and...thats it...I feel so plain now...uh...my hair gets lighter in the summer...but thats just beacsue the sun bleaches it blonde and I think that happend to everyone...oh well geuss i'M jsut not special

[em si hsoJ]

[QUOTE=Heero Darkangel]Ok...Looks as though his thread got abit ugly while I wasn't watching

In answer to all your guys notions, fact stands...My eyes do change colour whether you believe it or not.. if you want to shoot my thread full of bullet holes by bringing in scientific resources and supersitious notions so then be it I don't really care.. and Hell no! i'm not a vain person! god can strike me now if I was but the eye colour changing gene actually runs from my mothers side...she too has the same eyes, they change with her moods...and also tell me this...if I where a red shirt (most of you say that it's the clothes you wear) my reds will go a change because of what i'm wearing..LOL...now thats funny...sorry

Hey Dragon Warrior!! theres no such thing as magic!!!! and also did I say I was original...[B]NO[/B]...lol

Also its not my hair that changes colour its my COUSINS!!!...and it isn't all of her hair it is the tips of her hair which I stated at the top!...lol

Look I just asked if others had eyes that change colour not a full blown thread full of Scientific reasons and people who think its superstition

And also can someone tell me...(since most all seem to be glued to scientific reasons)...if my eyes are saphire blue on a sunny day and to get the pale blue wouldn't I have to stand out in the sun and look at it just to make them fade? and if it's got something to do with the light...then why do they stay the same when I go outside and then go indoors and it's only until my mood changes that they do...meaning...I may be angry and they turn pale blue and then I go outside after being inside and it's sunny but they stay the same and then while I've been outside for a while and I start feeling better then they change to saphire..it's my mother who tells me, she loves it...but I guess it's quite hard for others to think out side the scientific and superstitious box when things like this come up...so they judge you on it and make assumptions about you (referring to Dragon Warrior) that aren't even true

I'm not mocking anyone it's just that my eyes have been like that ever since i was little..hard to believe but it's true and if thats the way everyone feels about it...well there's nothing I can do about it...besides all I asked for is if anyone else has this problem and all I've been give so far is a science lesson and superstitious talk....but I do thank everyone for their posts..Ok[/QUOTE]

do you really look at your eyes that much? cuz I think I've looked at my eyes like... maybe 10 times...ever for all I know they could change every five minutes and I dont think I would have any idea

[Korey]

[QUOTE=Transtic Nerve]RRRREEEEAAAADDDD MMMMYYYY PPPOOOOSSSSTTTT

I said your hair LOSES pigment, i never said it tans. Your skin changes pigment when interacting with the sunlight/rays hence why your skin gets DARKER! Your hair on the other hand LOSES pigment, which means it GET LIGHTER! Did i not make that clear? Do you not know what pigment is? Do you not know how color works?
[QUOTE]

[COLOR=DarkSlateBlue]
calm down calm down. i didnt read your post in its entirety, i never really tend to do so anyways, takes too much of my time. i get your argument in its entirety now. i know how colors work my fellow otaku, i have the experience from high school to prove it. the whole color thing and the sun must have tooken a miss for me, because my hair never changed color at all, and i get plenty of outside exposure. [/COLOR]

[InuyashaReborn]

you're eyes can change due to other things than lighting. (i know from experience) people who have more than one color in their eyes genetically can have different color eyes at different times, depending on what they're wearing and if they wear makeup. for example, i got bored one time so after i had taken out my contacts, i stared up at the ceiling light for a few seconds, then looked at my eyes in the mirror. (the point of staring at the light was to get my pupils to retract so i'd be able to see more of my iris) and i found out that i naturally have 3 different colors in my eyes. dark green, sandy brown, and brown. so my eyes are usually either brown or green. (lately they've been green more often, though) so genetically your eyes can change color, in a manner of speaking. you just see a color that was hidden before.

[Transtic Nerve]

[quote][COLOR=DarkSlateBlue]
calm down calm down. i didnt read your post in its entirety, i never really tend to do so anyways, takes too much of my time. i get your argument in its entirety now. i know how colors work my fellow otaku, i have the experience from high school to prove it. the whole color thing and the sun must have tooken a miss for me, because my hair never changed color at all, and i get plenty of outside exposure. [/COLOR][/QUOTE]

I'm clam, it was amore of a joke than yelling or anything. I only capatalize words I like to emphasize, not implying im yelling.... changing color is hair doesn't happen after a few days... usually takes months, sometime a year for it to happen. It usually happens to people who consistantly are outside for hours upon hours for days upon days.... surfers for example tend to have that happen to them , anyone who spends alot of time at the beach or lives on the beach... those type of people.

[Deedlit]

[color=#009966]A friend of mine has eyes that change colors. When she's sad, her irises are blue. When she's happy, they're green (they're green natuarally anyway), and when she's angry, her eyes are a reddish-brown clay-color. It's pretty convenient, actually; if she's angry, I look at her eyes and immediately tell everyone not to piss her off. She's dangerous enough when we're just playing around, but if she is [i]really[/i] angry....:blackeye:

The only time my eyes change colors is when I'm sad, and even then my eyes only turn to a bright green. My sister says every once in a while that my eyes look blue, but that was because of the lighting. In truth my eyes are three colors: first there's a small ring of brown around my pupil. Around that is a large portion of green, which is the color most of my eye is. Then at the very edge is a thin ring of blue. It's pretty spiffy. ^__^[/color]

[50 cent]

Well those of you who keep bringing science into this post, well I don't like reading about science, but I will have to say one thing. Okay whoever thinks that your genes won't change overnight I agree with. Well one argument there could be a genetic code that gives your eyes the color changing abilitly, but we will not know for sure, but I will tell you my eyes do change believe it or not. They will change from blue to silver to just a plain gray. I would show you pics but you would never believe it because of photo shop crap now days, or I would show you a movie of it, but my cameras don't work with the type of computer I have. Well you can believe it or not. It is a fact that people do have eyes that change color alright so stop arguing about it alright. 50 out

[badjesus]

actually its true your eyes do change colour its common for poeple with blue eyes its when people have a mix between different genes that are even my dads eyes are deep brown my mums are grey.
Its most common in the irish/ germanic race (aryans) wwho have black hair and blue eyes but the previous poster has a point they dont literally change when its dark or clody my eyes are dark green but whenits sunny they are light blue but this is because its like looking at a rainbow, you dont definatly see each colour because of the light.
you cant change genes thats impossible
by the way the reason its rare is because the race is all but extinct there are only about 6 million people in the world that actully come from that race because their family has to have been in ireland before the 8th century because that when england carried out thier own version of the holacaust on celtic races therfore its hard to find irish race people (and dont say if your american youre irish coz thats absoulout rubbish your'e all FRENCH/ Cornish

[Korey]

[quote name='Transtic Nerve']I'm clam, it was amore of a joke than yelling or anything. I only capatalize words I like to emphasize, not implying im yelling.... changing color is hair doesn't happen after a few days... usually takes months, sometime a year for it to happen. It usually happens to people who consistantly are outside for hours upon hours for days upon days.... surfers for example tend to have that happen to them , anyone who spends alot of time at the beach or lives on the beach... those type of people.[/quote]

Well i have a question for you then. does the opposite apply for the people who stay inside for hours and hours in cities like london and seattle? also i didnt know that you werent yelling or anythin', you see when i do read the entire post (which is rare) i tend to read them out loud and your posts sound like you are yelling or raising your voice, whatever you prefer.

[50 cent]

[QUOTE=badjesus]actually its true your eyes do change colour its common for poeple with blue eyes its when people have a mix between different genes that are even my dads eyes are deep brown my mums are grey.
Its most common in the irish/ germanic race (aryans) wwho have black hair and blue eyes but the previous poster has a point they dont literally change when its dark or clody my eyes are dark green but whenits sunny they are light blue but this is because its like looking at a rainbow, you dont definatly see each colour because of the light.
you cant change genes thats impossible
by the way the reason its rare is because the race is all but extinct there are only about 6 million people in the world that actully come from that race because their family has to have been in ireland before the 8th century because that when england carried out thier own version of the holacaust on celtic races therfore its hard to find irish race people (and dont say if your american youre irish coz thats absoulout rubbish your'e all FRENCH/ Cornish[/QUOTE]


Thank you for saying the I mean no one has really gotten the point here. Oh and I think you are right about the irish germanic race because you don't see many of them. 50 out

[Lolita Izumi]

[COLOR=Navy][FONT=Franklin Gothic Medium]My eyes change from blue to green green to blue and sometimes they are both differant colors at the same time. Right now thay are slightly red and blue n_n[/FONT][/COLOR] :D :sweat: